At the time they were writing JLA, they were working on Vertigo Comics' The Invisibles, their most personal world, which they described as information given to them by Aliens during an abduction in Kathmandu. Besides being aptly described elsewhere on this website as "made up of back-to-back Crowning Moments of Awesome", Morrison's JLA also served as inspiration for the DCAU's Justice League, usually made up of back-to-back Crowning Moments of Awesome itself. They then wrote several miniseries in Britain and for Vertigo Comics, and rose to stardom with the relaunch of Justice League of America, which featured DC's big superheroes together again for the first time in years. Next was the Doom Patrol, turning them into the greatest constant Mind Screw ever put into Four Colored pages.Īfter those critical successes, they wrote Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, which became the best-selling graphic novel up to that point, and featured selected members of Batman's rogues gallery - as well as the Dark Knight himself - as different aspects of non-comic book, medical insanity, such as schizophrenia and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It was because of Zenith that Morrison was hired to do a comic about Animal Man, a character few knew and nobody cared about, and started their long tradition of taking total losers and transforming them into something completely awesome. Like pretty much every superhero comic by English/Scottish/Irish writers during the eighties, it was both a superhero deconstruction and an excuse to take shots at Margaret Thatcher. After a few attempts at Marvel UK, they started writing Zenith for Britain's 2000 AD magazine. Their first published comic book work was Gideon Stargrave in 1978. Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish writer, best known for the complex use of meta-fiction within their stories. GRANT MORRISON to Animal Man, Animal Man #26
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